alaskatravel.com, read 4 days ago. Back to the report
93 to 100 in 6 steps
Do them in this order. Each step says what to change, on which pages, and what it adds. Hand the whole plan to your agent, or work through it yourself.
Now #10,824 of 263,585Step 1 top 1%Step 6 full marks
Worked out from this read, with every step before it done. A score says pages are well formed. It does not say an assistant cites the site.
The steps
Each is one change across the pages named. When one is live, read the site again and mttr marks it done.
- 1
Use one main heading
+4 points, to 97, and #2,058, 8,766 places up, and into the top 1%
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
71 pages
See the pages
- /advice/best-time-to-visit
- /advice/best-train-for-me
- /advice/how-to-get-around
- /advice/train-and-bus
- /advice/why-alaska
- /alaska-railroad
- /alaska-railroad/schedule
- /anchorage
- /anchorage/lodging
- /anchorage/things-to-do
- and 61 more in the copied plan
- 2
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 99
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
99 pages
See the pages
- /advice
- /advice/10-questions-to-ask-first
- /advice/best-time-to-visit
- /advice/best-train-for-me
- /advice/how-to-get-around
- /advice/train-and-bus
- /advice/what-to-pack
- /advice/why-alaska
- /alaska-railroad
- /alaska-railroad/schedule
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 3
Match structured data to the page
Under a point
Use the schema type that matches the page: Article for guides, Service or Product for offers, Organization or WebSite for the home page.
The home page
- 4
Add an llms.txt
Under a point
Add /llms.txt: a short plain text map of the site for assistants. Its effect is unproven, so treat it as cheap insurance.
Once, for the whole site
- 5
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
10 pages
See the pages
- /anchorage
- /anchorage/things-to-do
- /blog
- /cruises/princess-cruises
- /destinations/off-the-beaten-path
- /destinations/regions/southcental
- /girdwood
- /kantishna
- /lodging/hotels
- /talkeetna/lodging
- 6
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
8 pages
See the pages
- /
- /advice/train-and-bus
- /advice/why-alaska
- /cruises
- /cruises/itineraries
- /destinations/regions
- /lodging/wilderness-lodges
- /things-to-do/best-glacier-tours
2 more, to tidy up after 100
- 7
Describe images
Under a point
Describe every content image in its alt text.
6 pages, 5 of them under /find/
See the pages
- /find/activity
- /find/cruises
- /find/lodging
- /find/packages
- /find/transport
- /lodging/by-destination
- 8
Fix description lengths
Under a point
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
4 pages
See the pages
- /find/cruises
- /find/lodging
- /park-connection-bus
- /things-to-do/bear-viewing-tours
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 60 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/advice/how-to-get-around283 ms/advice/best-train-for-me239 ms/237 ms/advice230 ms/advice/best-time-to-visit228 ms
Fastest: /anchorage, 55 ms. Heaviest: /find/packages, 70 KB.
Read from its home page’s code and the headers its server sent. A tool that loads later, or only on other pages, is not seen here.
ASP.NETServer
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: a Travel agency named Alaska Tour & Travel. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- Xalaskaexperts
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 0
A sign is not proof. Hidden characters can carry a watermark or instructions meant for an AI, and they come off with a clean copy of the text.
/fails 2: Match structured data to the page and Fix title lengths1 page/anchoragefails 3: Use one main heading, Replace unsupported sales claims and Link straight to the final address1 page/cruisesfails 3: Use one main heading, Fix title lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/girdwoodfails 3: Use one main heading, Replace unsupported sales claims and Link straight to the final address1 page/kantishnafails 3: Use one main heading, Replace unsupported sales claims and Link straight to the final address1 page/park-connection-busfails 3: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/alaska-railroadfails 2: Use one main heading and Link straight to the final address1 page/arctic-circlefails 2: Use one main heading and Link straight to the final address1 page/blogfails 2: Replace unsupported sales claims and Link straight to the final address1 page/bus-linesfails 2: Use one main heading and Link straight to the final address1 page/car-rentalsfails 2: Use one main heading and Link straight to the final address1 page/cooper-landingfails 2: Use one main heading and Link straight to the final address1 page
And 32 more parts of the site.
The read stopped at its page limit, so pages no link leads to cannot be told from pages it did not reach, and neither is reported.
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